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31 ... lbo-talk] Slaughter in Iraq soon seems to be part of normal life -- rank: 851

... war Published: 28 November 2006 Iraq is rending itself apart. The signs of collapse are everywhere. In Baghdad, the police often pick up more than 100 tortured and mutilated ... war on each other. A new and ominous stage in the disintegration of the Iraqi state came earlier this month when police commandos ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Tue Nov 28 13:15:03 PST 2006

32 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 574

... Boddi - kinda, sorta, mostly. As someone who's actually read the Qur'an (Abdullah Yusuf Ali's trans. -- it's not as long as the New Tesstment), and studied the theology a bit (weird phase of my life; don't ask), I, like many WASPs, was ... to Christianity. On paper, at least. What Boddi says about the Second Coming of Jesus (Isa in Arabic) and the End Days in ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon Nov 27 17:05:40 PST 2006

33 [lbo-talk] Night Watch -- rank: 749

joanna: Thanks for the review. I will check it out. I grew up on ... and Chekhov have not yet been matched. Filmmaking owes most of its art to Eisenstein. In dance they are, again, the masters, with the Ballets Russes basically defining the most radical and nuanced trends in twentieth century art. They ... computer games, etc... I was somewhat irritated with their lick the western arse filmmaking of the eighties, but I have ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Sep 16 05:11:05 PDT 2006

34 [lbo-talk] Lights, Kremlin, Action! -- rank: 768

The Moscow Times Tuesday, August 8, 2006. Issue 3470. Lights, Kremlin ... New York Times Service James Deck and James Heth -- or "the Americans," as their Russian film crew calls them -- descended 70 meters down a rusty ladder into the blank darkness of one of Moscow's serpentine metro tunnels, far below a cluttered construction lot near the old Red Army Theater. Deck and Heth are the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 8 09:48:01 PDT 2006

35 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 712

... probably take some medication for whatever condition makes him incapable of engaging others without calling them stupid. the desire to give the 'flat out D' to jerry monaco should be kept private ... what jerry means when he says (1) that what is of value in heidegger can be reduced to 'attitudes' (since i ... statement), and (2) that when actually trying to make sense of a writer it is necessary to actually ask the simple question "Is what the writer says true in ...

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Author:	Louis Kontos
Date:	Mon May 15 17:59:03 PDT 2006

36 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 700

... 15/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > What the fuck do I bother? > > Good God Jerry you have just demonstrated that you > know jack shit about the subject you are talking > about.... > apparently to the ears of the deaf or the > really, really stupid,... > If you came to a hypothetical ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Mon May 15 08:05:39 PDT 2006

37 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 700

... and shallow ontology we end up with a disconnected bricolage of ideas that can be found in the mystery paperback section of the used book store or can't stand up on their ... s ontology for two seconds, but I find a lot of value in his insights as disconnected from that drive shaft. If (as some think) the labor theory of value or value theory or whatever ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun May 14 09:43:36 PDT 2006

38 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 654

... t banal onscurantism > and nothing will persuade you otherwise. In the > circumstances, the thing to do is to ignore the old > Nazis and quietly think less of those of who think he > might have something to offer. To reframe something I wrote off-list.... The authoritarian Volk or Hobbits and Heidegger: My problem with ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Sun May 14 05:42:06 PDT 2006

39 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 450

... her critique, and I agree that there's >a lot of domestic political posturing over Darfur, and that a US military ... would doubtless make matters worse. I think that Yoshie >muddied the waters a bit by using a term like "Establishment Jews ... which >has an awkward if not rancid ring to it. The case against another war is >strong enough. Why employ terms that are guaranteed to divert attention >from the main point? I think the main point was well stated in a Counterpunch column by Gary Leupp today, viz.: "Throughout the country, the pious-sounding campaign on behalf of Darfur ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed May 3 07:41:30 PDT 2006

40 [lbo-talk] Re: Blaming the lobby -- rank: 499

Michael Perelman wrote: > > Maybe so, but what about the way that they have picked of congressional representives who > opposed Israel, beginning with Paul Finley and onto the recent electoral defeats of Black > reps. in the South? The point is not that Israel is weak but that ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Mar 26 10:20:51 PST 2006

41 ... lbo-talk] Importing Russia's blockbuster: 'Night Watch' comes to the United States -- rank: 682

Importing Russia's blockbuster: 'Night Watch' comes to the United States PAUL BURKHARDT AP February 12, 2006 A film portraying a world of vampires in modern-day Moscow helped revive the Russian film industry, introducing the term "blockbuster" in a country whose major studios collapsed with the communist government. The fantasy-horror tale "Night Watch" (Nochnoi Dozor) is based ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Feb 13 08:12:14 PST 2006

42 [lbo-talk] Thanks to the Frey program, I'm going to rich famous and beloved ... -- rank: 499

... info at pulpculture.org> wrote: > I also saw a lot of overlap with these reviews of great books: > http://blog.pulpculture.org/2006/01/15/worst ... book/ There are some maybe intentionally funny ones in there: The Lord of the Rings (1954) Author: J.R.R. Tolkien "The book ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:18:58 PST 2006

43 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 617

Of course it is supposed to be a Christian allegory. But the Christians don't have a monopoly on the elements of the story. I have no objection to expressly Christian writing. There ... DW Robertson, or one his acolytes was right, Shakespeare (er, Lord Bacon, Baron Verulam, or maybe the Earl of Oxford), ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Dec 20 07:38:19 PST 2005

44 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 697

... it. As reluctant as I am to show any signs of dissent from my wife, I'm moved to forward this entertaining review from the FT. She went to see the film when I was out of town knowing that I wouldn't have gone anywhere near ... December 8, 2005 All aboard for a nightmare trip to the hereafter By Nigel Andrews It is never too late to ... them enough. That they never read C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia to me in my childhood showed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 18 19:42:15 PST 2005

45 [lbo-talk] A History of Violence -- rank: 617

Michael wrote: > > I'd say then that The Searchers was the beginning of the end. > Thriller, > > Film Noir, Sci-fi, Horror, Action, etc. have survived the civil > rights > > movement and the sexual revolution better than the Western did. > > I'd ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Nov 16 17:15:01 PST 2005